I repeat that this bug showed up in an old version (8.04 or
thereabouts), was gone on 8.10, then showed up on 9.04 and has been
solidly buggy ever since. Even a Sony TZ that I thought was immune to it
turned out to be prone as well. I originally identified it on a Dell
D830 with a 4965 chip.

The best test I have, one that rarely fails, is to transfer an 8 GB file
from the suspected machine to locally wired server (rsync, nfs, anything
will do). At best, the transfer will stall at around 5GB, when you then
realize the wireless connection no longer works. To recover from that
situation there are several approaches (from reselecting the given
connection on NetworkManager to a full restart), that you will have to
resort according to the phase of the moon or the spin of the electrons
around.

Reviewing my previous posts I noticed that I already tried with two
other distros and the bug is ubuntu-related only. Since I only use the
D830 as a wired server now (switched to a Mac, where the wireless always
works and the machine suspends and always wakes up when I open the
lid:-)), it's a bit hard for me to do a perfect test to really blame the
ubuntu kernel patch set. The test is to compile a vanilla kernel and see
what happens with wireless, even if other things break, since this is
supposed to be just a test...

Maybe I find sometime to test this approach on the Sony TZ, but who
knows, this semester I'm swamped.

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[Jaunty] Intel wireless 3945ABG is unstable and disconnects frequently
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